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HaikuOS Registrar Working
Professor Cool Linux writes "'The registrar, the app server's shy brother, who manages several system-wide application services like the application roster, the MIME types database, the clipboard, and message runners, is now working under HaikuOS.'"
And then? I mean to say... I speek technogeek rather well, and this just goes over my head... Perhaps it's the hour, but am I missing something potentially impressive here? (preferably explained in english, ;) )
The status page has more details on the overall system progress. When I first visited that page, I though that it would take forever to finish. I looked again just now and got a most optimistic feeling.
mr. troll, EAT THIS
It's a small part of an unfinished clone of a dead niche operating system.
What, not even the benefit of a Netcraft announcement?
*It's a small part of an unfinished clone of a dead niche operating system. Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often enough to warrant it being newsworthy.
I respect what these guys are trying to do, but this doesn't belong on Slashdot any more than the 0.1 release of foobar text editor that somebody whipped up on their lunch break. *
OK, slashdot is NEWS FOR NERDS.
this definetely is NERDY. much more geeky than all the politics crap.
filter the beos stuff out if you wish. beos still rocks even if it's not usable for the stuff I do at the moment, but hopefully these projects will bring it to life again.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
SO?
...this doesn't belong on Slashdot...
RTFA -- "...in principle we should now be able to run most non-graphical applications."
Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often...
Aye.
Operating system news is about as much nerd as you can get. It's also open-source, so feel free to cannibalize.
leaves falling softly
to untouched green expanses
LET BEOS DIE
Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often enough to warrant it being newsworthy.
(raising my hand)
Used it daily for months, hated to let it go, but with the shutdown of development it couldn't keep up with the hardware. Very happy to see this continuing to move forward, and hopefully something useful will come of it someday.
Oh, and if you're looking for a great user of BeOS in this day and age, check out TuneTracker.
compare the BeOS file system to the one that Apple is planning on introducing in tiger, or the fabled WinFS that seems to keep on getting pushed further and further into the future.
Actually, WinFS is supposed to replace the file system with a database, which is what BeOS had in it's earliest days, before the guys at Be, Inc. decided that it ate too many resources, and then designed the BFS that Apple is now copying (and don't say they aren't, they hired the original designer of Be's file system to write their new one).
Indeed, the cloned version of the file system has been picked up by another open-source OS (Syllable, I think) for use as their file system.
my pet machine
One day not so long ago, people would have said the same thing about Linux.
/worked/. Tracker and Deskbar are beautifully simple and functional. Hardware compatibility is brilliantly transparent. Applications were installed like OS X packages, except they were much more compact. StyledEdit did everything that TextEdit did, except possibly for spelling (I don't notice, I'm a good typist), and there were spelling services you could download (the Cocoa API was based in large part off BeOS' architecture). Keyboard shortcuts even use the Alt key, meaning that you can quit an application with your thumb and ring finger without having to twist your hand. (I guess this is the legacy of having built BeOS for PowerPC first. :D)
Have you ever used BeOS? I've known about it since R1, and I downloaded R5 Personal as soon as it came out. Despite the almost total lack of third-party applications, it was by far the most usable operating system I've ever ran. It took 18 seconds (I timed it) from pressing the power button on my Celeron 466 to having a usable desktop - no hourglass or spinning beach ball or anything. Everything was an order of magnitude faster, on that Celeron, than Windows XP on my 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 desktop or Panther on my 1 GHZ G4 iBook.
And everything just
BeOS might seem irrelevant now, when there's only a tiny group of hackers working on it. Linux arguably has more marketshare than Mac OS now, though, and BeOS is just way better. Be's marketshare was artificially low only because it cost money, and who was going to pay money for an app whose only third-party applications (except Gobe, which is still the best office suite ever - ask Apple, who hired most of their engineers for Pages) were written by hobbyists? Now that an open-source BeOS will be completed very soon (considering how fast they've been going, I'm hoping a beta version will be released by the beginning of 2006), people will be able to download it and play with it the same way they did with Linux, except that Haiku will be many times more user-friendly and will already have a wide range of GUI applications available.
I'm not one of those people who thinks Haiku will take over all computers someday. But if it got even as much marketshare as Linux, then who would need to spend hundreds of extra dollars for Macs, when you could buy ultra-cheap PCs that, thanks to Haiku, would run faster and have a wider base of third-party software?
(Note1: Obviously, Macs, especially notebooks, have hardware advantages over PCs, like clearer screens and longer battery life. Still, the cheapest 14-inch iBook costs $1300, while you can get 14-inch or 15-inch Dells for significantly less... I'm willing to pay the premium for OS X and the hardware compatibility, but I don't think I would be just for the battery life.)